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Suphala — Alien Ancestry (2013)

 Suphala — Alien Ancestry (2013)

Suphala — Alien Ancestry
Ξ   Suphala is a tabla artist, composer, and producer. She is a protégé of tabla players Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain and is based in New York City.
Location: Minnesota ~ New York City, U.S.
Album release: October 2013
Record Label: Tzadik/Suphala Productions
Cat. # 7729
Duration:     48:03
Tracks:
1 Interlude     1:18 
2 The Beginning     3:11 
3 Alien Ancestry     2:21 
4 Bazaar     4:39 
5 Cerulean     6:11 
6 No Words     3:56 
7 Not Even     5:40 
8 Eight and a Half Birds     6:08 
9 Vashikaran     14:33
Members:
Ξ  Suphala: Tabla, All Other Sounds
Ξ  Kinan Azmeh: Clarinet
Ξ  Hadi Eldebek: Oud
Ξ  Amir Elsaffar: Trumpet
Ξ  John Hadfield: Cajon, Garhand
Ξ  Vijay Iyer: Piano, Remix
Ξ  Jose James: Vocals
Ξ  Matt Kilmer: Frame Drum
Ξ  Mazz Swift: Violin
CREDITS:
Ξ  Kinan Azmeh  Clarinet, Main Personnel
Ξ  Heung-Heung Chin  Design
Ξ  Chippy  Design
Ξ  Amir ElSaffar  Main Personnel, Trumpet
Ξ  Hadi Eldebek  Main Personnel, Oud
Ξ  Gérard Gentil  Photography
Ξ  John Hadfield  Cajon, Main Personnel
Ξ  Scott Hull  Mastering
Ξ  Vijay Iyer  Main Personnel, Piano, Remixing
Ξ  Jose James  Main Personnel, Vocals
Ξ  Matt Kilmer  Frame Drum, Main Personnel
Ξ  Bill Laswell  Main Personnel
Ξ  Kazunori Sugiyama  Associate Producer
Ξ  Suphala  Composer, Engineer, Primary Artist, Producer, Sounds, Tabla
Ξ  Mazz Swift  Main Personnel, Violin
Ξ  John Zorn  Executive Producer © Suphala performed a tabla solo accompianied by Andrew Shantz
•   Suphala is one of the most creative and innovative musicians in Indian music. A student of Ustad Allarakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain, she has performed with many of the greatest names in Indian Classical music as well as pop musicians like Norah Jones, Harper Simon, Yoko Ono, Vijay Iyer, Sean Lennon and Vernon Reid.
•   The three albums she has released to date — Instru Mental (September 1, 2002), The Now (May 10, 2005) and Blueprint (2007) — go beyond the limits of genre and style while referencing such diverse influences as Western classical, Indian classical,  jazz, folk and soul.
•   This CD is a fascinating collection of grooves, compositions and improvisations with some of her most illustrious collaborators and features a fabulous remix by Downtown legend Bill Laswell.
In french:
•   Avec SUPHALA, JOSE JAMES, MAZZ SWIFT, HADI ELDEBEK, KINAN AZMEH, AMIR ELSAFFAR, JOHN HADFIELD, MATT KILMER et VIJAY IYER.
•   Ancienne élève d'ALLA RAKHA et de ZAKIR HUSSAIN, la tablaïste SUPHALA apparaît sur des albums de NORAH JONES, SEAN LENNON et VERNON REID, et est à ce jour l'une des interprètes les plus appréciées en musique indienne. Elle a croisé toutes les éminences du style hindustani, et fut en 2005 la première musicienne à se produire à Kaboul après la chute des Talibans. Cette collection de morceaux, enregistrée avec son groupe régulier, accueille le pianiste prodige VIJAY IYER et inclue même une version alternative du sorcier du remix, BILL LASWELL.
Background:
•   Born in the United States by Indian immigrant parents, Suphala has studied music in India. She is trained in both Indian and Western classical music, and has studied piano since the age of four. In January 2005, Suphala was the first artist (and first female artist) to perform in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. According to The New York Times, "Kabul's badly depleted music scene received a welcome injection of excitement last week with the arrival of Suphala, the New York-based tabla player and composer...Suphala certainly brought brightness...her touch and rhythm are sure."
•   Suphala has recorded and/or performed with Norah Jones, Perry Farrell (Jane's Addiction), Sean Lennon, Harper Simon, Yoko Ono, Edie Brickell, Vernon Reid (Living Color), King Britt, DJ Spooky, DJ Logic, DJ Fafu, Vijay Iyer, 4 Hero, Lady Ms. Kier (Dee-Lite), Nina Hagen, Joan Osborne, Kelly Clarkson, Timbaland, Michael Bland, Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto), Vikter Duplaix, Gingger Shankar, Niladri Kumar, Ustad Sultan Khan, Rakesh Chaurasia, Salim Merchant, and Carol C (Si Se).
•   She is the daughter of Suhas V. Patankar, a pioneer in the field of computational fluid dynamics.
Website: http://suphala.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/suphala
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/suphala.fanpage
Interview: http://niralimagazine.com/2005/06/fruits-of-her-labor/
•   Her name means “giver of good fruit” in Sanskrit, and it seems that 30-year-old tabla player Suphala is doing just that. After studying with tabla masters Ustad Allarakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain, Suphala has come into her own. Her latest album, The Now, infuses the traditional tabla beats with sensual electronic sounds to create a sublime sound that is uniquely her own. It’s difficult to classify her music — and Suphala wouldn’t have it any other way.
•   “I think it’s very difficult to categorize,” she says. “I like to keep it very organic … I think of it as a soundtrack to my life.” And so far, life has been good. Born to Indian immigrants in Minnesota, Suphala began studying classical Western instruments. But at age 16, her love affair with the tabla began. Since then, Suphala has apprenticed with the great tabla masters and has since become a skilled and respected player herself. Earlier this year, she became one of the first foreign musicians to visit war-battered Afghanistan for a concert.
•   Nirali chatted with Suphala about her life and career.
  You grew up in the West, so why then was it so important to you to immerse yourself in this art form vs. another?
•  Well, I did like playing piano, which I started when I was four. As I got older, I started to explore other instruments. The sound of the tabla was something I really zoned in on. When I started learning it, it was only natural to become more immersed in Indian culture. It was really the sound of the instrument that drew me in, and the rest followed. Suphala’s love for Indian classical music was cultivated from a young age.
  It’s rare to find women tabla players. Have you faced any challenges or raised eyebrows?
•  Soon after starting to study the instrument, I decided this is what I wanted to do. It wasn’t just a hobby. That in itself was unusual for many people around me. The fact that I was a woman doing it wasn’t really the issue — it was that I wasn’t becoming a doctor.
  How did you get the opportunity to train with such great tabla masters?
•  My parents are Indian immigrants. I grew up in Minneapolis listening primarily to Indian classical music. Whenever possible, the took me to hear Indian artists in concert. From a trip to India, my mother brought me back a set of tables. I found an American musician who had studied tabla with a guru in India. After a couple of months of lessons, he called Ustad Zakir Hussain, who was giving a workshop in California, and said he had a student who would like to come to his class. Zakirji was very welcoming.
As my passion and dedication to the tabla grew, I began devoting several months a year to the instrument, traveling to India every year to study with my gurus, Ustad Zakir Hussain and his late father, the master Ustad Allarakha. They took me into their home and treated me as a daughter. Being in India where I could hear the tabla being performed regularly and be present during music season — when all the masters are touring and performing — has represented a huge part of my learning experience.
  So did you always have a strong sense of Indian culture growing up, or is it something you have developed?
•  Of course I had a sense of it, being first generation Indian in America. I went through all the same experiences anyone else [who is first-generation Indian America] would. But the tabla has taken me to India much more often than I would have gone otherwise. I have spent every winter season in Bombay for the last 10 years. So I’ve actually spent more time in India than my parents have in the last decade or so. I was always aware of the fact that I had these two cultures, but the tabla has given me a deeper understanding more than anything. Oftentimes people who move here from India spend time with other Indians from their own communities. But music brings all sorts of communities together. All those types of musicians are playing together. So it has broadened my education of India.
  What kind of music have you grown up listening to? What does music mean to you?
•  I really grew up listening to everything. We attended Indian concerts. I also listened to whatever was on the radio — pop music, I got really into reggae, and rap, you know anything. When you study music, you start listening to it with a different ear. I would start listening to it with that kind of ear. So that way I tried to learn from everything.
  Your latest album on Rasa Records is called The Now. Why did you choose that title?
•  I chose The Now because that’s the best moment to be in — when you’re in the moment, living in the moment. Music is a vehicle to get to that state or mind or place.
  You are involved in all the technical aspects of your music, and you also frequently perform live. Do you enjoy one more than the other?
•  I do write, produce and engineer everything. It’s two different mindsets for me. In the studio, you’re alone a lot. You’re going inward more, thinking about all these ideas. Playing live, you’re dealing with your audience right there on the spot. It’s the communication I enjoy and seeing what happens with the listener. Right now I’m more in the mode of playing out live.
  What’s next for you?
 I want to just keep studying tabla. For me, all this other stuff allows me to have more time with Zakir, my guru, learning more about Indian music. That’s the most complex for a tabla player — the classical tradition. n
*Ismat Sarah Mangla* can play the dhol, but just barely. So the tabla is completely out of reach.
  Published on June 6, 2005.
*Notes:
Ξ  Ismat is a journalist living in New York City, where she writes about money for, um, Money magazine and all things South Asian for NIRALI. When she scrapes a few moments of free time together, she’s either watching Detroit Pistons basketball, quoting Arrested Development or writing on her weblog.
Ξ  Ismat loves Thai food, though she believes sadly that’s the one cuisine New York sorely lacks. Want to change her mind about that? Send her an email at ismat@ niralimagazine.com.
Ξ  Oh yeah, and comments about NIRALI are always welcome (and savored!), of course. © Suphala by David Hortsman (HarmoNYom)
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